Chandelier



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G. LUDWIG CHANDELIER 'Filed Aug. `5, 1921 Hnw /3 lm-H una Patented Oct. 16,1923.

UNITED stares GEORGE LUDWIG, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

ASSIGNOR TOR. WILLIAMSON `8c COMPANY, OF

.Y CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A yCORIORA'ILION OF ILLINOIS., v

' KVoI-IANLDELIER.

Application filed August 5, 1921,

The object of this invention is to generally improve chandeliers for electric lights, `and particularly to provide for the ready passage of the lighting wires through the body of the chandelier to the bulbs.

Morel specifically, my object is Vto replace thefconventional loop and hickey with an improved loop providing passages for the wires through which the latter may be insorted with ease and speed. In the accompanying drawing? which illustrates one embodiment of the invention Fig. 1 is an elevation partly in section ofa chandelier embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 with the outer portion of the body broken away.

Referring to theV drawing, 10 indicates the usual canopy and 11 the chain through the links of which the wires 12 are laced and descendfrom theV canopy to the'body 13. The body 13 is, in this case,rmade of an upper portion 14 and a lower portionl; and distributed about the periphery of the body are a suitable number of arms 16 from which the pendant bulb sockets 17 project.

Assembled with the lowest link of the chain Y is a loop 18 which may have any desired form of artistic appearance. AAs I have shown it, the bottom is equipped with scrolled' knobs 19 forming shoulders which rest against the upper side of the top section of the body. I

The sides 21 and 22 of the loop extend below this shoulder through the opening 27 in the top piece 14 and well within the bodyy 13. The lower end of the-sides are connected' by a short bar 23 having in its center a threaded opening 24 adapted to receive a threaded pipe or rod 25 extending through the bottom 15 and receiving the knob 26. With this construction the wires the lower ends of the sides 21 and 22, by the v parts required so the one-.piece loop and fthese parts rigidly together with the body .departing from the spirit below the top thereof to permit pass freely between `ing anopening 1n its serial No. 489,992.

cross bar 23 andon` to the bulb sockets'carried by the yarms 16.

My invention simplifies the construction of chandeliers and reduces the ynumberof that the chandeliercan be manufactured yat lower cost than has been customary heretofore.

chandelier. VWith this construction I am enabled to dispense with the necessity for a separate hickey which is rectlyy or indirectly to the looprto enable vusually secured `di-` f And it enables the; n

parts to be easily and quickly assembledandk secured together tov produce a strong, rigid proper distribution of the conductor wiresf* connection between ythe knob` yto secure and I provide-a lsingle held therebetween. y l I .am aware thatvvarious changes in the `form and proportion and arrangement of parts of my inventionmay be made without iicing any of the advantages thereof and I reserve the right, therefore, to make al1 such f following claims claim changes as fairlyfall within the scopeyof the end of the loop within the bodyso that' the p lower end of the opening between the sides f and without sacri- 1. A chandelier comprising a body having f of thel loop will be located within the body .f

distribution of the conductor wires within the body, and

Vmeans for securing the loop to the body. comprising a body hav- 2. In a chandelier,

ing openings in the'top and bottom thereof,

a one-piece loop seated in the top openingk and arranged to have the lower end of the Y openingV between the sides of the loop opening laterally within the body,

a knob, and, al y rod connected to the lower end 'ofthe Vloop within the body and extending throughther` yopening in the bottom of the body and connected to the knob to rigidly secure the parts together. n l p 3. A Ychandelier comprising ra body. havtop, a one-piece loop seated 'in said opening piece at its bottom, shoulders on the loop enga-ging the top of the body so thatV the lower end of the opening between the sides 5 *of the loop willbe located within the body l below the top thereof to perr'nit distribution of the conductorV wires within the body, a.

and having a cross-- vlgs/0,2355

knob to engage the bottom of the body, and

a one-piece connection engaging the Croissvbar of the loop and extending through the 1o bottom of the body to engage the knob for yrigidly securing the parts together.

GEORGE LUDWIG. 

